John,

>...On my machine using either the development environment, or a compiled exe file the help file comes up fine by pressing F1. However when I install the system the user cannot bring up the help file by pressing F1. The chm file is in the application root direstory.

In addition to Plamen (The files mentioned are normally on the system due to office components) You will need to install

foxhhelpps.dll
foxhhelp.exe

to make this work from within a vfp-exe.

Hope this helps